A great talk by U-M Pharmacy's Dr. Steven Erickson, PharmD this morning at the virtual Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine conference! He covered a lot of ground including the need for increased #MedEd training on #Disability awareness. A great call to action!

3rd annual conference is underway! Thank you Dr. Steven Erickson for a great talk on the importance of cultural awareness to combat ableism in healthcare and treatment for person with disabilities!

Just wrapped up a valuable panel and collaboration between @DAC_med and The DocsWithDisabilities Initiative about navigating disability in education and patient care!! Content from this discussion will be available in an upcoming The DocsWithDisabilities Initiative podcast. Next up, research and abstract hour!

Thank you to all of our panelists, Gabriel Adams, Vanessa Cameron, Ifeoma Ikedionwu, Amy Mook, and our moderator Zoey Martin-Lockhart for a thought-provoking conversation on identifying obstacles for trainees with disabilities and increasing representation in the workforce!

👏👏Great job and thank you to our research hour participants presenting their work in the disability space! Really exciting to hear about these new efforts and findings!

Thank you to Diana Cejas, MD, MPH for a wonderful talk shedding light on the barriers to and differences in care experienced by adolescents and youth with disabilities. We came away with some useful tools on how to promote an anti-ableist, neurodiversity affirming practice.

We were so honored to have @ArgenyiMD speak to us about how dual identities of queerness and disability affect health outcomes in youth and adults. Thank you for a great and informative talk!

Thank you to our panelists Elizabeth J. Stigler, Ph.D. (she/her) and Kenneth Jennings and our moderator Cris Mix from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for a great discussion of how disability intersects with multiple identities in and outside of healthcare.

Congrats to our friends at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern Medicine Sam Schroth, Trisha Kaundinya, MD, MPH and Allison Kessler, MD for presenting their work on a MS1 Learning Module about #DisabilityInMedicine. Great poster, Great project, by GREAT people! 👏 #DisabilityInMedicine #MedEd #AAMC23

Creating this organization from the ground up with Trisha Kaundinya, MD, MPH has been one of the most meaningful things I've ever done. As we wrap up our time in UME, we're looking for health graduate students to join the National Board so Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine's mission can keep moving forward 💛

Applications are still open for the DAC Med National Board! Get your applications in by March 1 👏